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At my school, we've worked really hard to cultivate a culture of reading. Every English class begins with individual reading time, we hold monthly book clubs, and we've even purchased high-engagement books for other teachers in other content areas in our school. We are working so hard to make reading a part of every day. When the pandemic hit, I didn't realize I wouldn't see my kids again. On the last days of in-person learning in 2020 I sent home as many of my classroom books as I could. I thought that we were going to be out of the classroom for a few weeks, and I really wanted to make sure that my students had access to books while we were gone. Unfortunately, we didn't come back to school, and recovering those classroom books didn't really happen. A few made their way back to me, but for the most part, they disappeared from my shelves. I've worked in the last two years to use my legislative funds to replace those books while also trying to purchase new books for my students. If a student wants a particular book, I try to buy it for them even if that means I'm sometimes using my own money to do it. Especially since many of my students are looking for popular books in Spanish and our library's Spanish section is quite small. I believe that books provide an escape: worlds to get lost in, mirrors to our own lives, and windows into the lives of others. They are a fantastic tool for empathy. The act of reading is always an act of empathy, an imagining of what it is to be someone else. These books will give my students access to reading and fulfill requests they've made for books they want!

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At my school, we've worked really hard to cultivate a culture of reading. Every English class begins with individual reading time, we hold monthly book clubs, and we've even purchased high-engagement books for other teachers in other content areas in our school. We are working so hard to make reading a part of every day. When the pandemic hit, I didn't realize I wouldn't see my kids again. On the last days of in-person learning in 2020 I sent home as many of my classroom books as I could. I thought that we were going to be out of the classroom for a few weeks, and I really wanted to make sure that my students had access to books while we were gone. Unfortunately, we didn't come back to school, and recovering those classroom books didn't really happen. A few made their way back to me, but for the most part, they disappeared from my shelves. I've worked in the last two years to use my legislative funds to replace those books while also trying to purchase new books for my students. If a student wants a particular book, I try to buy it for them even if that means I'm sometimes using my own money to do it. Especially since many of my students are looking for popular books in Spanish and our library's Spanish section is quite small. I believe that books provide an escape: worlds to get lost in, mirrors to our own lives, and windows into the lives of others. They are a fantastic tool for empathy. The act of reading is always an act of empathy, an imagining of what it is to be someone else. These books will give my students access to reading and fulfill requests they've made for books they want!

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